A Medicare scam that just kept rolling

Washington (com)Post ^ | August 16, 2014 | David A. Fahrenthold

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The government has paid billions to buy power wheelchairs. It has no idea how many of the claims are bogus.

LOS ANGELES — In the little office where they ran the scam, a cellphone would ring on Sonia Bonilla’s desk. That was the sound of good news: Somebody had found them a patient.

When Bonilla answered the phone, one of the scam’s professional “patient recruiters” would read off the personal data of a senior citizen. Name. DOB. Medicare ID number. Bonilla would hang up and call Medicare, the enormous federal health-insurance program for those over 65.

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Mostly they were for fat people apparently too lazy to walk. Sad to say, but it sure seemed like it. As it does in those sad times I visit Walmart.

My 93 year old arthritic mother refuses to use an electric cart while shopping, choosing to push a cart and it helps support her. She says, "I Don't want people to think I'm lazy".